Not to mention: it’s easy to throw away the wrapper of a candy bar you just ate. Like, to use your metaphor, let’s say you didn’t know littering was wrong. You open a candy bar and drop the wrapper on the ground, then someone walks by and explains to you why littering is bad, so you go “Oh!” and pick it up and throw it away. That’s doable.
But if you were then also expected to go and find every piece of trash you’d ever dropped on the ground before you understood what littering was, that would get a little more complicated. Trash gets picked up and blown around by the wind. It ends up scattered all over the place. You can’t find all of it.
To bring the metaphor back to Tumblr, it’s easy to get rid of a post you just made if someone points out to you why it might be problematic or hurtful, but old posts don’t just live on your blog–they got reblogged, shared, tossed around, maybe screencaped and put on other platforms. It’s literally impossible to get rid of all of them because you aren’t even the one who shared all of them.
Even now, I’m responding to something you may have said months or possibly even years ago. I have no idea if you even still believe what you said here, but it’s clearly still making the rounds.
The nature of Tumblr is it’s very difficult to be free of anything you’ve said or done here because it’s liable to come back. What we’re asking is that people not do bad-faith archeological digs through someone’s old posts looking for the trash. It’s there; probably we’ve all said shit we now realize was awful. I know I have. But there’s nothing we can realistically do but learn and move forward, and it’s in really bad faith to keep holding it against us that we can’t erase years’ worth of history from the internet.
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